Owner's Manual

Configuring Your Network 19

Configure IP address settings for IPMI using one of the following

procedures:

• Using dynamic IP addressing—Dynamic IP addressing is the default

assumed by Oracle Universal Installer. It is recommended that you

select this option so that nodes can be added or removed from the

cluster more easily, as address settings can be assigned automatically.

For example, if the channel is 1, then enter the following command to

enable DHCP and set the channel:

# ipmitool lan set 1 ipsrc dhcp

NOTE: Use of DHCP requires a DHCP server on the subnet.

• Using static IP addressing—If the BMC shares a network connection

with the operating system, then the IP address must be on the same

subnet. You must set not only the IP address, but also the proper

values for netmask, and the default gateway. For example, assuming

the channel is 1:

# ipmitool lan set 1 ipaddr 192.168.0.55

# ipmitool lan set 1 netmask 255.255.255.0

# ipmitool lan set 1 defgw ipaddr 192.168.0.1

The address specified in the example(192.168.0.55) is associated only

with the BMC, and does not respond to normal pings.

Establish an administration account with a user name and password, using

the following procedure (assuming the channel is 1):

Configure BMC to authenticate password for

Admin

access over LAN.

For example:

# ipmitool lan set 1 auth ADMIN MD5,PASSWORD

List the account slots on the BMC, and identify an unused slot (a User

ID with an empty user name field). For example:

# ipmitool channel getaccess 1

. . .

User ID : 4

User Name :

Fixed Name : No

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